Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is criminal practice about?

    3. → Criminal practice overview MIND MAP

    4. Key definitions

    5. Key legislation

    6. Reminder about offence categorisation

    7. → Offence categorisation MIND MAP

    1. Overview of advising clients at the police station

    2. → Detention clock reviews and maximum time limits MIND MAP

    3. Initial arrest and custody

    4. Rights of a suspect in police custody

    5. The detention period

    6. → The detention period MIND MAP

    7. Summary of custody processes and timelines

    8. → Summary of custody processes and timelines MIND MAP

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Advising clients at the police station

    1. Overview of police interviews and identification procedure

    2. Gathering information on arrival at the police station

    3. → Gathering information on arrival at the police station MIND MAP

    4. Suspect interviewing procedure under PACE

    5. Interviews and remaining silent

    6. Professional conduct issues at the police station

    7. → Conduct issues at the police station MIND MAP

    8. Identification procedure

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Police interviews and identification procedure

    1. Overview of police bail and charging the suspect

    2. Release under investigation

    3. → Release under investigation MIND MAP

    4. Bail before charge

    5. → Bail or detention after charge MIND MAP

    6. Charging a suspect

    7. → Charging a suspect MIND MAP

    8. Bail or detention after charge

    9. Alternatives to charging

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Police bail and charging the suspect

    1. Overview of representing vulnerable clients

    2. Vulnerable suspects

    3. → Vulnerable suspects MIND MAP

    4. Appropriate adults

    5. Interviewing and identifying vulnerable suspects

    6. → Interviewing and identifying vulnerable suspects MIND MAP

    7. Charging juveniles

    8. Alternatives to charging juveniles

    9. → Alternatives to charging juveniles MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Representing vulnerable clients

    1. Overview of bail

    2. What is bail? What is remand?

    3. → Bail and remand MIND MAP

    4. Remand

    5. The right to bail

    6. Bail conditions

    7. → Bail conditions MIND MAP

    8. Bail application procedures

    9. Variations and appeals against bail decisions

    10. Absconding and breaches of bail

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Bail

    1. Overview of allocation

    2. → Allocation MIND MAP

    3. Categories of offences

    4. Public funding

    5. Procedural overview

    6. Either way offences

    7. → Court allocation MIND MAP

    8. Multiple offences

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: First hearing and allocation

    1. Overview of case management and pre-trial hearings

    2. Introduction to case management

    3. → Case management: procedure overview MIND MAP

    4. Magistrates' Court case management

    5. Crown Court hearings

    6. Disclosure

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Case management and pre-trial hearings

    1. Overview of evidence

    2. Burden and standard of proof

    3. Admissibility

    4. → Admissibility MIND MAP

    5. Identification evidence

    6. → Identification evidence MIND MAP

    7. Adverse inferences

    8. Hearsay evidence

    9. → Hearsay evidence MIND MAP

    10. Confession evidence

    11. Character evidence - the defendant

    12. → Character evidence: the defendant MIND MAP

    13. Character evidence - other persons

    14. → Character evidence: other persons MIND MAP

    15. The right to a fair trial

    16. → The right to a fair trial MIND MAP

    17. PRACTISE MCQs: Evidence

    1. Overview of trial procedure

    2. Introduction to trials

    3. → Introduction to trials MIND MAP

    4. Magistrates’ Court trials

    5. → Magistrates Court trials MIND MAP

    6. Crown Court trials

    7. → Crown Court trials MIND MAP

    8. → Crown Court trials: jury verdict MIND MAP

    9. Witnesses

    10. Courtroom conduct

    11. → Courtroom conduct MIND MAP

    12. PRACTISE MCQs: Trial procedure

    1. Overview of sentencing

    2. Non-custodial sentences

    3. → Non-custodial sentences MIND MAP

    4. → Breach of Community Orders MIND MAP

    5. Custodial sentences

    6. → Custodial sentences MIND MAP

    7. Sentencing powers of the courts

    8. Calculating sentences

    9. → Calculating sentences MIND MAP

    10. Newton hearings

    11. → Newton hearings MIND MAP

    12. PRACTISE MCQs: Sentencing

    1. Overview of appeals

    2. → Criminal appeals MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to appeals

    4. → Criminal appeal routes MIND MAP

    5. → Magistrates Court v Crown Court MIND MAP

    6. Appeals to the Crown Court

    7. → Appeals to the Crown Court MIND MAP

    8. Appeals by way of case stated to the High Court

    9. → Appeals by way of case stated MIND MAP

    10. Appeals to the Court of Appeal

    11. → Appeals to the Court of Appeal MIND MAP

    12. Judicial review

    13. Summary

    14. → Summary MIND MAP

    15. PRACTISE MCQs: Appeals

    1. Overview of youth court procedure

    2. The youth justice system

    3. Bail for youths

    4. → Bail for youths MIND MAP

    5. Sentencing in the youth court

    6. → Sentences for Youths MIND MAP

    7. → Sentencing Procedure in the Youth Court MIND MAP

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: Youth court procedure

    1. Instructions

    2. Criminal practice MOCK EXAMS

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<b>James</b> <b>Richardson</b>

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James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

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<b>Jake</b> <b>Schogger</b>

<b>Co-founder, Lawyer &amp; Education Expert</b>

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

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